Notes

[1]This draft was written on the letter of I. S. Unschlicht, Deputy
Chairman of the Veclieka, to the Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.), which
stated: “At the recent session of the All-Russia Central Executive
Committee it was decided at the September sitting to hear the report of the
commission set up to inspect the Commissariat for Foreign Trade. Please
give me your instruc-tions on the following: .1) should such a report be
made at all; 2) if it should, then in what direction” (Central Party
Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C. C.P.S.U.).

Lenin’s motion was adopted by the Politbureau at its
meeting on August 25, 1921.